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My fondest memories of summers past growing up in the small town of Circleville, Ohio was cruisin' the town. I guess from everybody's perspective it could be their home town as well. I bet all small towns in the U.S. are all pretty much the same.
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We wore our best jeans or dress pants, a pressed shirt and polished shoes. Which leads me to the icon of the 60s that no guy could do without and no lady could resist and that was Jade East Cologne. The girls just went wild over it. I believe it was a toxic agent that released the hormones in the girls. At least that is what I thought and the buddies I hung out with thought.
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The most memorable tradition of growing up in the 1960s was our eating together as a family around our large dining room table. That tradition has entirely disappeared in today's society.
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Thinking back to that time when baseball was America' favorite past time, (I now think football may have taken that lead) Sometimes we played several games a day and often played until it was too dark to actually see the ball. That is how much we enjoyed the game of baseball. When we weren't playing on weekends we listened to Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese calling the game of the week on TV.
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It was a dark moonless night as we cruised in Jim's 1950 black Chevy. This car wasn't the best looking machine around but it always made it to where we were going. Since the statue of limitations has expired, I can now provide details of the Great Pumpkin Caper.
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When I was a sophomore or junior in high school in Circleville, Ohio. I recall the legend of a haunted bridge near a place called Yellowbud close to Williamsport, Ohio.
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Union Street, Circleville, Ohio crosses my mind so often as I look back to the sixties. My friend Ron and I use to practically live on that street during our teen years. The street was loaded with many lovely girls from high school with whom we hung out. The 60s music we listened to is showcased here.
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This is a continuing episode of Ron and my Union Street Chronicles from the 1960s.
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Growing up in the 1960s I probably did some crazy stuff but nothing could compare to the road trip Ron, Edwin and I took to Waverly Ohio in 1965 to see those lovely girls we had met a few months before. Besides Edwin's wheel flying off the car with us traveling about 70 MPH, staying at one of the girl's homes while their parents were away and of course the highway patrol looking for us, it was pretty much uneventful. Right!
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Driving down the main drag with the radio blaring and listening to the top music of the day was quite a memory! What characterized those great days of the 60s was the cool disc jockeys that jammed the airways during that era. Whatever happend to them?
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During the 60s with the arrival of the dog days of summer, came the clanging of the bell and the music of the ice cream truck arriving in the neighborhood. Kids all over the area stopped in their track and ran home to get their dime to purchase a treat from the frozen confectionary pusher.
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Just recently while enjoying a great pizza here in Texas, my mind began wandering back to Circleville, Ohio, where in my teens, my friends and I frequented the oldest pizza establishment in town, Vick's Pizza.
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Friday of every week The 60s Official Site will showcase a countdown of the top ten songs of the current week of a particular year in the 1960s.. So tune in at this web page weekly and check out what year we will be showcasing. Here you can listen to the Top Ten songs of the week from the Billboard Charts. It may have significance to your first love, your birthday, graduation or any special occasion that brings back the memories on how great the sixties truly were.
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Each month Soundtrack of the 60s along with DJ Neal Stevens takes you on a trip back to the current month from a year of the 60s decade. Neal will play the hits you were listening to on the radio played by your favorite DJ and the 45s you were buying from the five and dime store that month of that year.
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Each month DJ Neal Stevens spins the songs that were hits the current month from a year of the 60s decade on soundtrack of the 60s. Join us and recapture the magic of 1960s music. This month the music of December 1967 is featured as based on Billboard Charts.
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The most important song writers of rock 'n roll history. The hits continued into the early 1960s with such classics as "Stand By Me" and "Spanish Harlem," but when the Beatles broke in America in early 1964, the music industry changed very quickly. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller never stopped working together,
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This special broadcast by Neal Stevens of Soundtrack of the 60s looks back at the songs about school and those we danced and listened to at the sock hop as we marched back to school to hit the books again which just seems like yesterday.
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The 60s Official Site proudly presents the Top 25 songs of the 60s decade as selected by Billboard Magazine as Neal Stevens counts them down for you.
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DJ Neal Stevens plays the songs that could very well be the soundtrack of the novel "Altamont Augie" by Richard Barager.
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Neal will play dedications to that somebody special in celebration of birthdays, anniversaries or just a long distance dedication to that special somebody. Only a few will be selected each month so complete the form and please fill out all required information.
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Take a year by year excursion of the 1960s with a sixties musical soundtrack. Look back to the 1960s via video that highlights each year in historical headlines, music, TV, fads and fashion.
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Discussion and questions about the 60s. Here you can start or participate in a discussion topic.
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Throughout rock history there have been many versions of great songs especially during the fifties and sixties decade. Each week we will look at two versions of a song and let you decide which version you like the best. You can listen to each version before casting your vote.
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Returning visitor update information for The 60s Official Site.
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Receive free The 60s Official Site Newsletter delivered to your email on Friday of each week excluding holidays. It features updates and new content for the site, trivia and much more.
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Visit recollections of the 60s in artilces written by Eva Pasco, author of "Underlying Notes." Baby boomer women and men will love her reflections of the 1960s.
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Each week Eva Pasco presents a look back at the events including TV and music that shaped the 60s and made it one of the most eventful decades of modern history. Enjoy weekly her insight and humor with Eva' Retro 60s Flashback..
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Laurel & Hardy, Abbot & Costello, Allens & Burns, Martin & Lewis, Rowan & Martin and even the Sixties comedy team Tom & Dick Smothers had a “straight man”. Dick - “You’re stupid. You’re dumb. You’re not a man. You’ve never done anything right. You’re a failure. You’ll never amount to anything.” Tommy – “Yeah, and Mom liked you best.”
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For whom does the doorbell toll? In the Sixties, it tolled quite often for stay-at-home moms. Avon reps, Fuller Brush Men, magazine hawkers, Jehovah’s Witnesses, tin men trying to get a little on the side—customers for aluminum siding, that is.
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Even though Lesley Gore put her foot down at the young age of seventeen, this 45 rpm, nouveau, defiance-in-vinyl was a radical departure from her attitude the previous year when boyfriend Johnny disappeared from her birthday party, only to show up with Judy, wearing his ring.
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Ding Ding! The sound your bat-winged Chevy Impala makes when you run over the driveway hose at a filling station during the Sixties, which alerts the coveralled gas jockey with a grease-stained rag hanging out of his back pocket, on beck and call. Those gas guzzlers could get mighty thirsty for regular.
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No intentions of stringing you along, the yellow polka dotted tag line given to the change in sexual attitudes and behavior during the Sixties was the beach blanket phrase: “sexual revolution” – bingo!
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Me say may, me say may-o…Mayonnaise come and me wan some now! Lazy, hazy days of summer preclude packing a cooler prior to embarking on road trips or picnics.
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Wholesome and winsome TV dads of the Sixties were primarily well-to-do widowers with live-in help. S-o-o-o many contenders in the “grandest-of-all” arena for female divorcees and widows in the neighborhood to walk over their pot luck dinners in the hope of winning a man’s heart through his stomach.
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"A-wop bop-a loo-mop, a-lop bam-boom! Tutti Frutti, aw-rooty!” (Little Richard, 1955). During those sultry summer evenings of the Sixties, my sister and I would scramble along the backseat of our Plymouth Suburban station wagon or one of my dad’s newly restored, vintage Model A’s to go for a family spin.
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Fully loaded, with no option for air conditioning at the time, the roar of the wind from the open windows competed with the blare from my radio station. Set on either WICE or WPRO AM, my trigger finger frenetically jabbed buttons until I settled on a song. As far as I was concerned, The Beach Boys ruled the airwaves.
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Memorial Day weekend precludes a taste of summer through firing up the backyard barbecue or building a campfire. Happy motoring along the highways and byways of the Sixties as we embark on an imaginary, nostalgic camping trip to New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest campground
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Excitement, gravity defiance, adrenalin rush, escape – Down like a roller coaster, Back like a loop-the-loop, And around like a merry-go-round – it’s Palisades Park (1962, Freddie Boom Boom Cannon) or our favorite amusement park we frequented as a youngster during the Sixties.
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Sha na na na, sha na na na na…Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip …Mum mum mum mum mum mum…”Get a job!” (Silhouettes, 1957) Don’t be a soda jerk! Technological advances and societal changes have rendered jobs that once loitered in the Sixties, obsolete.
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Along with this shift in cultural winds to affect social climate, the values and ideals that once held us in their grip like a mother’s embrace, became relegated to the past. Bequeathing roses to honor select Sixties sitcom moms which include: Harriet Nelson, June Cleaver, Donna Stone, Laura Petrie, and Samantha Stevens.
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Cast in the role of Western hero, John Wayne fought the conflict between good and evil where his fictional composite built an image of a no-nonsense, stalwart, and stoic folk hero on screen and off—with reservation. Clint Eastwood, the sexy cowboy—sleek, slick, grizzled, tough, straightforward, morally ambiguous, smart, and opportunistic-- prevailed over the bad and the ugly of humanity on the harsh frontier.
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Long before John-n-n-n-y plunged into the Depp-th of a rabbit hole and tunneled his way to Wonderland, mad hatters have mattered as a matter of fact. Pulling rabbits out of hats, their madcap fantasies transform fabrics and frills into heady wear for women: fedoras, berets, newsboy caps, toques, and trilbys.
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The Sixties started off on the wrong foot in 1960 when an enraged Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe on his delegate desk during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly, in protest against accusations the Soviet Union deprived Eastern Europe of civil and political rights. One crazy, Kodak, misguided missile of a moment with no credible photographs or video recordings to preserve the lunacy!
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As the High Sixties era lives on through our resurrection of nostalgic memories and manifestations of cultural and political trends, there have been some extinctions of distinction. Like maladapted prehistoric monsters that once roamed and ruled the earth, the outdated, obsolete, and impractical did not make the Darwinian cut no matter how down-to-earth.
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Ever since “Elvis the Pelvis” generated heat and got everyone’s dander up on The Milton Berle Show by swiveling his hips and vamping a half tempo croon to Hound Dog in June of 1956—You ain’t-a-nuthin’ but a hound dog, cuh-crying all the time—it’s been win, place, or show for canines cavorting as cartoon characters or pedigreed stars on a television series. A credit to their impersonators or trainers, I’m tossing a bone to memorable barking dogs of the Sixties that never bit.
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A Baby Boomer, my academic journey through the halls of junior and senior high meandered through the Sixties. The uncomfortable rite of passage sitting on a hard plastic seat at a tablet arm desk while trying to absorb the significance of algebraic polynomials proved a little too abstract.
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Though I lacked Dead Man’s curves at the age of ten-- a little Russian dressing enabled me to hammer-and-sickle the mannerisms, accent, and dialogue of Natasha Fatale as animatedly as her voice actress, June Foray. Ms. Fatale, Cold War cartoon villainess of Rocky & Bullwinkle (1961 – 1973)
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Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder when it comes to those Dam Trolls! Originally known as Leprocauns, and also called Wishniks, Thomas Dam’s creation became one of America’s most lovable dolls for the short duration of 1963-65 and through surges of popularity thereafter.
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“Greek Life” at the college dates from the Civil War Era, Sigma Fying that a man belonged to a fraternity or a woman belonged to a sorority. In Sixties reality, one of the unsurpassed college pranks occurred during the 1961 Rose Bowl where the Minnesota Golden Gophers took on the Washington Huskies.
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Even though the sky was the limit, the stewardess was fair lady game for work place discrimination through the no marriage rule, and retirement or transfer to a ground job upon turning 32 – 35 years of age.
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No small wonder the more vibrantly colored pinkos not only make a more desirable mate, but inspired the species proliferation of the popular, kitschy, stilted, plastic lawn ornaments of the Sixties.
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Espionage of the Cold War era mushroomed into the “spy crazed” period of mid Sixties television.
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“I Heard It Through the Grapevine” Motown wasn’t the only thing that had its mojo working in the Sixties. Across the pond where British rockers bowed to the Queen, Carnaby Street hosted the coveted fashion boutiques with all the latest sensations.
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Though the Detergents may have been on a soap box in 1965 with the release of their hit single, “Leader of the Laundromat,” I’m lathered up about what came inside those soap boxes during the Sixties. Oh, JOY!
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Dr. Kildare, the NBC television series (1961 -1966) focused on young intern, Dr. James Kildare (Richard Chamberlain) who worked at the fictional Blair General, dealing with his patients’ problems and garnering the respect of senior Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Raymond Massey). Ben Casey, ABC’s version (1961 – 1966), starring Vince Edwards, portrayed Dr. Ben Casey as a young, intense, idealistic surgeon at fictional County General Hospital, and mentored by Dr. David Zorba (Sam Jaffe).
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Twiggy allowed me to become a trendsetter my freshman year of high school. While most of my teen peers were ironing their long hair straight after the Beatles made landfall in America, it became Greaser passe for me to backcomb or rat tease my hair to dizzying heights.
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JFK's assassination and the sequence of events to follow would leave imprints in our minds impervious to heat, moisture, or chemical breakdown--the Zapruder Effect.
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The Sixties were a time when "going green" implied "tis the season to put up your Christmas tree." We weren't privy to the tagging and cutting traditions of tree farms, or inquisitive about their pest management/soil conservation practices. We hadn't given a fleeting thought to recycling through composting, chipping, or muching either.
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I shake my head and marvel how any of us children of the Sixties could have turned out fine as I mind travel down my own memory lane...
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Though I've yet to possess a lava lamp, I've always been meaning to. Its unpredictable kaleidoscopic fluidity never fails to capture and hold my attention. The lamp's resurgence in popularity from its limelight during the sixties heats up the locomotion all over again.
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A lifelong fragrance afficionado who flits from one femme fatale fume to another to achieve an olfactory high, my hip hip hurray to the Hippie Movement's profound influence on "smelling good" is long overdue.
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Where have all the Hippies gone? A native Rhode Islander, one of my favorite places to visit along the coast was The Fantastic Umbrella Factory, a small farm with a cluster of drafty, dilapidated, and musty barns owned by Hippies.
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During the Capitol years 1962-65, our ultimate all American summer band, the Beach Boys, produced their hit holiday singles, "The Man with all the Toys" and "Little Saint Nick." I had believed in Santa Claus up until 1961, a youngster hanging onto visions of sugar plums while practically sledding into a double digit year.
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So, in spirit, our nation's 44th prez is not quite a boomer though he's not your sterotypically cynical Gen Xer either. That puts him on the cusp...
1969 was a pivotol year on the cusp of ending the counter-cultural Sixties while approaching the oppositional Seventies. That same year I became a freshman at Rhode Island College , embarking on an intellectual journey driven by idealism. During September's inaugural convocation held inside Roberts Hall, I bonded with fellow classmates, strangers who paired by chance on the auditorium's stage. I happened to lock hands with a lanky, longhaired dude named Dennis. We swooned to the Youngbloods’ lyrical illusion of idealism:
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"There's a man in the funny papers we all know"--Alley Oop, the comic strip caveman created by V.T. Hamlin in 1932. This Stone Age, though not stoned, Neanderthal was immortalized in 1960 through the screwball lyrics sung by the Hollywood Argyles-- really Gary Paxton with a multitrack solo since he was already under contract with another label as "Flip" of "Skip and Flip."
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The Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion by wanting to hold our hand, loving us yeah yeah yeah, and assuring us all we need is love. However, a honey-toned, Brazilian chanteuse named Astrud Gilberto who made her professional singing debut with "The Girl from Ipanema" in 1963, bossa novaed love in the proper perspective as the daring decade of the Sixties emerged. Her quavery voice subtely and realistically bemoaned the complexity of love hitherto hushed behind closed bedroom doors of the conservative fifties.
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The price of a first class postage stamp in 1960 was 4 cents; school bus drivers did not run the gauntlet of background checks prior to getting hired; no one made a big deal out of things where it concerned children--perhaps they should have; people in the boonies opened their door after dark when they heard a knock...and, most importantly, Judy deserved a citation for using her head...
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In 1967, I took my first job under the umbrella of summer temp. Capitol Heel Lining occupied a large part of the old Wanskuk Mill complex on Branch Avenue, Providence. Like an aging sage, the mill's wisdom trickled through those walls to teach me lessons in life I've never forgotten.
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As a child growing up in the Sixties, the Cold War was as palpable a dark cloud as the mushroom blast over Hiroshima. StilI fresh in my mind are clips of Nikita Kruschev banging his shoe on a lecturn while delivering the line, "We will bury you!"
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My fondest recollections growing up in the Sixties settle upon those day trips taken during my father's two-week summer vacation. Thinking back, it was hardly a vacation for my parents. My mom would load the picnic cooler with utensils and food staples road-ready for my father to cook on the portable stove at a campground enroute to our destination
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Not 1969…the year which closed the lid on the Sixties without smothering its cultural revolution. 1969 rose to prominence as the year I graduated high school during a time students were tracked as college prep, business, or "generally lost."
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Since the Sixties were a prime time of protest against the Vietnam War, and advocation of equal rights be they Gay, Student, or Civil--why not equality for women while we were at it? Empowered Daughters of the Riveters revolted against male supremacy in a capitalistic society where discrimination in wages and promotions ran rampant.
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One of the popular hairdos of the Sixties decade was that of the Bubble Flip--no simple undertaking indeed! In order to achieve the "look," serious commitment was a major requirement.
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As hamburger prices increased anywhere from 45 - 55 cents, we ventured to the Hillsgrove section of Warwick, Rhode Island where the first burger joint selling beef on a bun for 15 cents took a stand-- Burger Chef. This new fast food establishment's meagre offerings included: burgers already prepared with mustard, ketchup, and onions; fries; Coke; vanilla shakes.
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Though there will always be spills in "Aisle 2" of our nation's supermarkets, B.B. King's '69 song title spills all: The Thrill is Gone...the thrill of collecting and hording S&H Green Stamps.
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Spiraling down Jefferson Airplane's Go Ask Alice when she's ten feet tall looking glass of the sixties, I find myself winding along the linoleum corridors, a seventh grader at Lincoln Junior High.
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Perhaps more memorable to me than Ralphie's Daisy Red Ryder BB gun in A Christmas Story (1983), is that bizarre leg lamp, so evocative of nylon stockings during the sixties. Fragile or Fra-Gee-Lay, are what they were.
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Who would have thought a metal folding chair would impact my recollection of Summer in the 60s? That's right...a cold, shallow, beige chair with a set of jaws to spawn its own macabre tale
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The year 1969 is most memorable to me as my last year at Lincoln Senior High, and the start of my freshman year at Rhode Island College. Though I can now appreciate the challenging spirit of the Sixties, you might say it eluded me while living through the decade.
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Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers' "Monster Mash" caught on in a flash with its release in 1962. You might say Pickett's Transylvanian twist was a blood tansfusion infused by his father, a theater manager, who distilled in his son a love of horror films.
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Rodgers&Hammerstein's timeless lyrics of brown paper packages tied up with strings prompted a seasonal memory jog to dredge up a few of my favorite things. Mind you, as 1960 rolled down the living room carpet where our Christmas tree stood in front of the picture window, I was a 9 year old--one of those girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes. This disclosure alone should prove illuminating as any jaunty gold star placed on the pinnacle of a tree.
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Before my family moved into our custom-built home in Lincoln, we lived in a tenement for a few months. This temporary lodging happened to be practically right next door to Walker's Market on the corner of Douglas and Mineral Spring Avenue. Hard to believe this barn red clapboard structure had aisles wide enough to stroll a shopping cart.
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Peering down Memory Lane of the Sixties, I see "those oldies but goodies" delivered right to our door in the neighborhood sticks.
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The year 1969 has afforded me much to write about, allowing me to revisit my year as a freshman at Rhode Island College yet once more. The summer prior to, my mother bequeathed me her '66 blue Chevy Nova coupe fully loaded, undoctored save for my touch of baby moon hubcaps. The price for regular gasoline was $.35 per gallon in '69
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634-5789"...not my telephone number, but a song title whose words were crooned in a raspy voice by Wilson Pickett circa 1965. While 1965 was historically significant for the growing Anti-War movement; civil unrest with rioting, looting, and arson; the first year mandated health warnings appeared on cigarette packs; the debut of the mini skirt; the Beatles' release of four new albums including Help...I became a winner!
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A child of the Sixties, my family's celebration of Easter was hard-boiled in traditions. However, Peter Cottontail hopping down our bunny trail and an egg scavenger hunt were not our basket case. That's not to say my parents weren't warm and fuzzy. They just didn't walk on eggshells when it came to fostering a belief in the Easter Bunny, though we never lacked for chocolate marshmallow and solid chocolate bunnies. Ultimately, Easter was to dye for.
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We live during a time when Ma Bell would have shuddered over how the telephone gave rise to cell phones so technologically advanced as to spawn such aberrant behaviors as "sextexting" nude photos.
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Time to grab a canvas bag filled with clothespins, throw it on top of the load, and let's tow the line...the outdoor clotheslines in our backyards which enabled our neighbors to network throughout the Sixties.
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From "The Wringer" to "Towing the Line," comes "The End of the Line"--a fitting title for the grand finale of our laundry trilogy.
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Before you get the notion I'm going to drawl about roping cattle or saddling up at the "Flat Broke Ranch," I'm not steering you there by a longhorn shot. Instead, I'm rustling up a few memories growing up during the Sixties inside a one-level, five room ranch house in Lincoln, Rhode Island.
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Nearly every Sixties summer Sunday my dad drove us to Crescent Park--not my choice, but my sister's. Polar opposites, she never got her fill of thrills on the adult rides my father accompanied her on, whereas I was always too chicken to take a ride on the wild side. The Whip and Dodge Ems were more my speed.
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Friends of ours had a summer home in Wickford Cove, necessitating we visit during low tide and wait out the tide before leaving because the dirt road winding to their home would disappear. No matter to me because I spent many an adolescent Sixties summer day digging for quahogs, prime time during low tide.
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The Sixties were an idyllic time when you were more apt than not to sit down to family dinner spread over a red and white checkered tablecloth, feasting on a sumptuous repast of Southern fried chicken, corn on the cob, and mashed potatoes smothered in giblet gravy followed by mom's homemade dessert--perchance, blueberry pie.
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My own French Connection occured last period of my junior year at Lincoln Senior High--French III with Miss Bouquet (not her real name, of course). Though I could roll my gutteral r's and sound as though a clothespin pinched my nose when I spoke fluent French, the language did not make the French Connection for me or for the rest of Miss Bouquet's starry-eyed pupils. It was Mademoiselle Bouquet herself--tall, willowy, vivacious, and tres chic.
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“The Times They Are a Changing” (Bob Dylan)--just one of the many protest or patriotic songs drummed up during the Sixties in response to the Vietnam War. Though times indeed have changed, we Americans salute our country’s 233rd birthday,
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If the evolution-revolution of an anticonformist underground movement in American culture sprung the word "Beatnik," it makes perfect sense to coin the word Picnik in reference to those who sprawl over the ground or sit at a bench to feast on takeout from home.
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In the Sixties, the five-and-dime store on every Main St. morphed into the large discount store you were apt to find in "strip malls" in the burbs, stripped of unique architecture and character, that’s for sure.
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The Topps Company developed Bazooka Bubble Gum after the end of World War II, its name a derivative of the musical instrument Bob Burns fashioned from two gas pipes and a funnel in the 1930s, as well as the armor-piercing weapon developed during the war. First introduced in 1953, Topps has developed more than 700 comics for the Bazooka Joe series.
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My dad who braved snowstorms to get his girls what they wanted for Christmas while we gave Santa all the credit, pulled through again like a reindeer flying through the midnight clear. That Christmas a black Royce Union balanced on its kickstand in the living room.
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During those long hot summers of the Sixties, we'd pile up in the Plymouth Suburban station wagon or one of my dad's restored Bonnie & Clyde mobiles after dinner for a leisurely drive with no particular destination in mind. A prerequisite before takeoff: crank the windows all the way down so the breeze drafted by momentum plastered our hair back from our faces and made our eyes squint.
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I recollect inching forward in a line which snaked along the institutional green walls past the the lavatories and boiler room before being deposited inside the cafeteria, an emerald isle of green banquet tables spatially arrayed with napkins and silverware. A team of matronly hair netted cooks in immaculate white uniforms served us behind the kitchen counter,their scoopers raised in the air, ready to dole one or two scoops of sustenance on light plastic plates poised on our trays.
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Chuck Berry's 1956 hit recorded by the Beatles in 1963 for their British LP, With the Beatles, and released in the US of 1964 for the opening track of The Beatles' Second Album got ”My temperature risin" and me "Rollin' in arthritis," a Baby Boomer out of joint from what's been rollin' down the pike since the Sixties faded.
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I'm not whisking a Western omelet, praising the Best Western hotel chain, or stirring up tumbleweeds of sensitivity and sentimentality between two friends vis a vis BrokebackMountain. Instead, a big howdy to those major network "smoking guns" of the Sixties where you could spot the good guys by their white cowboy hats.
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In the US, instructions were enclosed with every record sold: "Imagine you are stubbing out a cigarette with both feet whilst drying your back with a towel." Meantime, while I was in junior high, I dried my back with a towel after showering at the conclusion of gym.
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My own childhood twist of the macabre did not involve scary hay rides or stepping inside the likes of the Munster Mansion on 1313 Mockingbird Lane, but rather a Taxidermy Twist into a shop where animals are skinned, tanned, and placed over a polyurethane form.
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The season of autumn stirs such homespun nostalgia for the colorful foliage on trees aligning the neighborhood streets, dipping apples in caramel, baking pumpkin pies, raking, and ultimately disposing of knee deep leaves surrendered by those mighty oaks.
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Just a year shy of the Sixties, on November 9, 1959 when I was an impressionable eight year old--The Contaminated Canned Cranberry Caper cowered me. You see, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare announced that some cranberries grown in Oregon and Washington State had been found contaminated with aminotriazole, a weed killer found to cause cancer in rats.
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While most of us gather with family and friends around a dining room table in warmth from the hearth and heart, it is hard as "hardtack" to fathom the First Thanksgiving, let alone the Pilgrims' 66-day/2,750 mile journey aboard The Mayflower, originating from Southampton, England to their final destination of Plymouth Harbor along the western side of Cape Cod on December 21, 1620.
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Tunneling through the tinsel toward Christmases past, Sixties past, Agent Orange collides with Elivs’s “Blue Christmas.” The early Sixties embraced all things futuristic, and Christmas was no exception. Hi-Yo, Silver!
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Just as we’d dashed through the snow o’er the hills of adolescence in the Sixties, my sister and I entertained visions of sugarplums in anticipation of the toys we wanted for Christmas.
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Ebenezer Scrooge’s memorable, miserable, miserly line, “What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer” subsequently rattled Marley’s chains and provoked ghostly visits conjuring up the past, present, and future. I am whisking up the Ghost of Christmas Past-- Sixties Past
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At 11:59 p.m. on December 31st, millions of people around the world will focus on the Waterford Crystal Times Square New year's Eve Ball as it begins its descent. In the span of a minute, we are in suspension, about to cross over time's threshold into a nebulous area of hope, challenges, and dreams.
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During the 60s, Topo Gigio made more than fifty appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show aired live 8-9 p.m. EST from CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York City, renamed The Ed Sullivan Theater on the occasion of the program's 20th anniversary.
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I’m talkin’ 'bout Dick and Jane reading series: I’m talkin’ 'bout those elementary school days of reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic when we sat behind our desks, part of the straight-and-narrow row, a strategic plan so we’d be visible to our teacher who clearly ruled the roost and didn’t put up with any shenanigans.
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During the Sixties we sure got a lion’s share of "sugar, sugar" shored on each heaping tablespoon shoveled from of our bowls: Fruit Loops—who can forget Toucan Sam, the mascot for loopy loops. Alpha-Bits—"Loveable Truly," the mailman character on the box; my sister and I would slurp the milk from our spoon and spill the letters onto the table, seeing what words we could form.
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In the early Sixties I’d approached double digit birthdays. During those brief interludes where my nose wasn’t serially immersed inside a Nancy Drew mystery, I enjoyed other relatively sedentary activities.
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As a youngster in the Sixties, stepping out into the world in my shoes, I have a fond recollection of having worn and worn out a few pairs of brown and white saddle Oxfords. Since I wore them to school, my mother frequently applied white shoe polish to the leather to keep them groomed.
In_My_Shoes.html
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In the 1960s when Baby Boomers were coming of age, and many aspired to the notion that marriage could be put off in order to enjoy the single life, it was a "swinger's" paradise, attested by singles apartment complexes springing up, starting in California.
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As youngsters across the land rejoice in no more books or teacher’s dirty looks, I look back to my own winter breaks during my childhood of the Sixties at a five room ranch in the picturesque country setting on Angell Rd. Bearing in mind that video games, DVD players, and computers were not at our fingertips to fritter away the time, allow me to escort you through a typical winter vacation of one week duration.
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Whenever I became bedridden with bouts of the measles, chickenpox, or influenza, I got hooked on Archie Comics. The Archie Comics is one of the most successful, longest running brands in the history of the comic industry. Its characters were created by publisher/editor John L. Goldwater.
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For Goodness' sake I got the Hippy Hippy Shakes, the contagious lyrics to "Hippy Hippy Shake" written and recorded by Chan Romero in 1959, and made popular by the Beatles in 1963, makes a perfect intro for things once considered hip in the Sixties. It was once considered hip to watch NBC's Hullabaoo (1965-66), a musical variety show for the leading pop acts of the time, and its ABC competition, Shindig, hosted by a different celebrity each week.
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Those of us who grew up in the Sixties loved our Oreos--sweet white creme filling sandwiched between two circular chocolate pieces. Over 491 billion Oreos have been sold since Nabisco's cookie monster debuted in 1912, making it the best selling cookie in the USA.
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...letter writing was an essential form of communication besides the telephone. The handwriting on the wall clearly indicates letter writing is on the line. Handwritten love letters tucked inside hat boxes stored in an attic once served as portals to the past like peel-back Polaroids.
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The story about to unfold is sure to strike a chord in most of us whose childhood spanned the Sixties, even though it doesn’t tiptoe through the tulip garden of assassinations, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, Camelot, civil rights, gay and women's liberation, Vietnam, the first manned landing on the moon, peace marches, world's fairs, flower power, hallucinatory trips, or sexual freedom.
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Though I was just a child during dawn’s early light of that era, I’ve gathered my wits about me to conjure what it must have been like to attend an adult cocktail party stacked with 45 rpm singles or 33 rpm albums on the stereo…It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to…(Lesley Gore, 1963).
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The carefree cruise referred to as the Sunday drive was prevalent during the Sixties when veering off the beaten path was more of an affordable luxury than it is today with the exorbitant price of gasoline.
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Ironically, through all of the social upheaval conducted by the nonconformist generation, the 45 rpm spinning the windmills of my mind is stuck on “uniforms” I remember during the Sixties.
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Though this ramble pertains to a real life incident which serially occurred during my childhood in the Sixties, it has nothing to do with social or technological change, assassinations, fashion, music innovations, Camelot, civil rights, gay and women’s liberation, Vietnam, or sexual freedom. It’s all about “channeling” my food—yes-- grooving, guttering, or furrowing my mashed potatoes
Channeling_Food.html
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Throughout the day our true love ways will bring us joys to share with those who really care—epitomizes that special breed of mothers—“A Sixties Mom”…Back in the early sixties when most moms were career housewives, my mom got up at five every morning to make my father’s lunch.
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Lifting the lid on a cookie jar is one way to jar childhood memories from the Sixties. Our cookie jar idled on a scarf in the middle of the round, maple kitchen table flanked by four captain’s chairs.
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“Which twin has the Toni?”One of the most famous fifties ads for home permanents showed identical twins each given the “royal treatment”—one, a professional hair salon wave, the other a Toni home permanent.
My_Kingdom_for_a_Curl.html
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One of the most famous performances in American history was that of Marilyn Monroe flicking the mic and singing Happy Birthday, Mr. President for JFK’s 45th birthday at a Democratic fund raiser held at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962. However, the beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed Marilyn M who exerted her influence on me during the early Sixties and beyond was not the smoldering screen star, but my father’s first cousin
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As I channel surf adolescent Sixties summer memories, the tide washes in nostalgic debris of The Beach Boys and beach party movies with Gidget & Moondoggie, and Frankie & Dee Dee trudging through the sand in “The Warmth of the Sun” (1964).
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The year 1967 may be memorable for encapsulating Montreal’s Expo 67; the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in what would launch the first Super Bowl; an onslaught of racial violence in major cities; Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and The Dirty Dozen achieving box office success. From my perspective, this particular year is most notable for the beginning of the summer excursions my mother, sister and me would partake in-- simply referred to as “The Beacon.”
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In a far out, far away, but not forgotten Sixties era before nonfat mayo appeared on grocery store shelves, before Oreo crème filling contained a mixture of vegetable oils instead of lard and metastasized into several varieties and cookie sizes, before the invention of cell phones and PCs capable of educating, game playing, communicating--there existed the most sacred stretch of leisure time known to adolescents—summer vacation from school.
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George Orwell’s post WWII term, "Cold War," impacted the lives of adolescent Baby Boomers in the Fifties and Sixties.....Meanwhile, TV shows like Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet went nuclear to reinforce the image of a self-contained family with the traditional role for women as housewives the social norm
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Every culture has one—an amorphous embodiment of terror with no specific appearance, who emerges from its hiding place under the bed or closet to “get us” during the night. The Boogeyman in its many forms terrorized us during the Sixties.
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Some historians claim "The Sixties" arrived on June 15, 1955 when antinuclear activists protested a civil defense drill, and ended with the final U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. For me, the middle of the Sixties revolved around The Salon.
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An adolescent of the Sixties, and a bookworm at that, tiptoeing diagonally along the dark colored squares of a checkerboard seemed such a natural progression of events.
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A student at Lincoln Senior High during the Sixties, my drawing ability, the same as now, bordered the stick figure stage of development.
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The stylus on those record players had a tendency to get stuck in a groove on 45-rpm singles or 33 1/3-rpm LP’s. Seems the passage of time warps vinyl as well as our recollection of the Sixties.
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Hard pressed to find a Sixties housewife/stay-at-home mom exemplified by June Cleaver, coiffed and ready to tackle housework in a shirt waist dress, heels, and beads-- I’m not the least bit surprised. Running a household in the Sixties entailed more than waltzing Hoover in a dress—interpret that as you will—or swishing a dust cloth.
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Even after tempest-tossed rides in the back of our Plymouth Suburban station wagon, unrestrained by seatbelts; scrapes dexterously painted with Mercurochrome; inhaling noxious fumes from airplane glue piecing together science .....
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Man, the Sixties were smokin’! Winston became the best-selling cigarette brand in the United States....We Sixties kids had an unfiltered, smoke ring-side seat watching The Flintsones (1960 – 1966) light up Winstons at the end of the show.
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What’s black and white and read all over? During the Sixties, you’d be hard-pressed to come up with any answer other than the “newspaper” even though the Baby Boomer decade witnessed the decline of newspapers accompanying the rise in television journalism.
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Besides business as usual during school summer vacation in the Sixties—bike riding, roller skating, rainy day Monopoly, puttering in the basement which Rhode Islanders call the “cellah” –my sister and I enjoyed a little daytime television.
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A frequent time traveler through Alice’s Looking Glass of the Sixties, I’m inclined to chase memories that lead me on a wild goose chase through the myriad twists and turns inside those tunnels to the past where I pry loose a stone or two.
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Growing up during the Sixties, in 1964 I entered Lincoln Jr. High as a seventh grader. That same year the Beatles arrived in the US, and made their first television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Soon the British Invasion revolutionized music with the likes of The Dave Clark Five . . . .
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During the early Sixties when I was of trick-or-treatin’ age, long before the tumultuous end of the psychedelic decade when the candy man mixed things with love to make the world taste good – you got yours by the penny or two at the local sugar shack.
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During the early Sixties a swinger named Tarzan, portrayed by Gordon Scott in Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), and by Jock Mahoney in Tarzan Goes to India (1962) — achieved a jungle high by swinging from grass ropes or vines. Back then, I did my own adolescent swinging which had nothing to do with the new twists American morality would take at the end of the decade, exemplified by the 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. So, too young to hang around where the hippies hung, to swing and dance where the swingers swung, I moved and grooved just the way I should on my outdoor swing set throughout the four seasons.
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Ever since Philip Danforth Armour opened a meat packing plant in Chicago - "Armour" - it "behoofed" many a cowpoke to round up the herd along the Southwestern trails. ... I have stirring memories of cowboys sitting around the campfire sipping strong coffee and spilling the beans whether from chili or swapping stories.
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Chatting over a landline with my sister the other day, we straddled the line of demarcation between the past and present, concluding that our family road trips during the Sixties instilled in both of us, enough thrills and adventures to last a lifetime.
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For most of us growing up during the Sixties, childhood was an idyllic Camelot, affording us a place and time of peace, enchantment, and enlightenment. I associate my Camelot with the late fifties and early sixties inside Lincoln Community.
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Twelve years old in 1963, when Thanksgiving fell on November 28th, our traditional family dinner was saturated not only with gravy but of the grave.
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Giving my snow globe a shake, before the snow settles on the landscape, here’s a nostalgic look back at the Christmases I fondly remember – a time when the hustle and bustle of shopping for presents occurred the last Saturday before Christmas…
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Though the spirit of Christmas may reside within our hearts all year long, its enchantment is rekindled by magic. For some, it takes an annual pilgrimage to Graceland.
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Hundreds of screaming girls, arms thrust forward in frenzied animation, their bodies shaking with intense excitement, create a crescendo of noise so loud that the song being performed by the smartly dressed group on stage is barely recognizable.
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Eagerly flicking through the racks at the local record store, my gaze is attracted by the five fresh-faced young men smiling out from the bright, colourful album cover. Their eyes are focused fully on the camera, confident in what they’re doing, not in an arrogant way, but simply letting everyone know that they’ll be doing the best they can to make a name for themselves in a tough, highly competitive music business.
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Is it really almost 50 years since I was a gangly 16-year-old-coming-on-17, as I was at the start of the summer of 1962? Where has the time gone? Rewind back all those years and golden anniversaries are everywhere, some personal, others universal …
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Rummaging in the loft just after New Year, I came across some of my old vinyl records. Flicking through them, one in particular caught my attention: it was Chubby Checker vs Gary U.S. Bonds, Songs with Twist in the title, or that were easy to do the dance to, filled the charts.
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Early 1965 and I’m tuned-in to the early-morning radio, getting ready for work when from out of the blue comes this thunderous opus, a song that crackles through the air and swirls round you like a cloak. It’s the Phil Spector–produced Wall of Sound classic, You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’, by The Righteous Brothers, and I’m instantly hooked.
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With his trademark cheeky grin and bubbly delivery, Gerry Marsden with his group The Pacemakers performs his latest single for an adoring television studio audience. It’s October 1963 and the song is You’ll Never Walk Alone.
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Seated expectantly in the dark, my eager young eyes transfixed on the big screen with its larger-than-life figures towering overhead, I would be transported to another time and place, a Hollywood-hued world that was more often than not the wonderment of the Wild West.
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YES, I can hear you, Tommy, loud and clear. It was resoundingly so in 1969 and still rings true today. The years may have flashed by like a speeding pinball, but the impact remains — and now, more than 40 years on, we have a resurgent Roger Daltrey triumphant after touring England with a refreshed rendition of the iconic rock opera, breathing new life into the deaf, dumb and blind kid’s rocky rite of passage.
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I’ve finally caught up with the stage musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, which has been running at theatres round the world for a staggering 20-plus years.
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The Beatles had the clever, toe-tapping, delightfully-melodic songs, the Stones had the pulsating, animalistic, howling songs, but it was The Who that had the chest-pounding, lung-searing, ear-deafening songs, songs that rocketed and roared, slapping against the audiences’ faces like sharp tentacles hurling from the stage, the thunderous roar of the guitars and drums reverberating through their bodies from the bottom of their feet to the top of their heads, a truly awesome visceral and cerebral experience.
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My, how time flies! One minute he’s an enigmatic young newcomer, stirring up the music business, the next he’s 70! It’s as if everything Bob Dylan has achieved in nearly 50 years of performing and song writing has happened in the blink of an eye. It does make you realise that life is, indeed, short. You don’t, of course, think like that when you’re young and growing up: old age just seems so remote, so very distant in the future. You might, to paraphrase a Dylan song, try to stay forever young, but time is relentless and unstoppable…
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Possessing a big voice that was blessed with a range as imposing as Texas, his home State, his songs were equally as big, grandiose and operatic in their intensity. He had a big, commanding stage presence that held audiences in his spell. Roy Orbison was indeed The Big O. There was just no one quite like him.
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Just back from seeing the London West End version of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, based on the famous 1955 jamming session at Sun Records when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis created great balls of fires!
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It’s February 1961 and I’m just four months into my 15th year, John F Kennedy has a few weeks ago been sworn-in as America’s 35th President (‘a momentous event’ according to one teacher at school, ‘what with him being so young and charismatic’), and the song going the rounds in the school playground is The Shirelles’ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
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5,4,3,2,1 … there I was counting down the days to an invigorating shot of Sixties nostalgia at the Maximum Rhythm ‘n’ Blues concert at the English coastal resort of Southend, when what should come along to spoil things but the heaviest early-winter snowfalls to hit Britain for nearly 20 years.
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The Seattle-born Hendrix lived in the top-floor flat at number 23 Brook Street between 1968/69, and would have been seen regularly on the streets in around the capital city’s Mayfair, Soho and West End areas, wild-haired and dressed in his trademark colourful clothes.
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For two months we have asked the visitors of The 60s Official Site and The Soundtrack of the 60s to vote on their five favorite songs from the 60s decade of all time.
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Do you have a question about the 60s (sixties) whether it is music, movies, events or anything in general that pertains to the 1960s?
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This page is dedicated to all baby boomers and pre-baby boomers. These expressions were used quite often while many of us were growing up in the 50s and 60s. Perhaps you heard your grandparents or parents use them or maybe you at one time have used these expressions of a more simpler time.
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Looking back at times brings special smiles and memories and nothing is more true than taking a look at the page advertising of yester-year. I have selected a few of these catalogs, magazine ads and newspaper ads from the 50s and 60s.
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The sixties produced some of the greatest music in American pop history and no residence was more popular than a Building in New York City known as The Brill Building. It was regarded as the most prestigious address in New York for music professionals.
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The origin of April Fools Day is unclear but many historians seem to think it came when calendar changes were made during the Midieval Times. (Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar) We as children during the 50s and 60s had our own gags and tricks from the obvious "your shoe is untied," or to when somebody bent over you tore a sheet of paper to sound like that person's pants had ripped.
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You cannot discuss the sixties without at least mentioning the teeny bopper music known as Bubblegum Music. The birth of bubblegum is generally dated from the success in 1968 of The Lemon Pipers' "Green Tambourine", 1910 Fruitgum Company's "Simon Says" and The Ohio Express' "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy", but music critics have identified novelty songs including The Dixie Cups' "Iko Iko" and Patti Page's "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?"
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Thinking back to the time when I had my first beer, I remember the disgusting taste and how much I hated it. I thought beer would NEVER be my choice of drinks. I will stick to my Pepsi or RC Cola. Of course we had to be macho and I pretended to enjoy it as my friends who took their first sip probably were thinking the same thing.
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There has been no better era for music than the 60s. As I look back I recall that there were many songs about teenage death and tragedy that were very popular not only during the sixties but the fifties as well.
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The 50s and the 60s had its share of teen idols and teen queens. I have selected what I feel were not only themost influential doing these decades but the most memorable.
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Nostalgia look at the 1960s candy including Fizzies Drink Tablets,
Chunky Candy Bar, Sugar Daddy, Beeman's Chewing Gum,Clove Chewing Gum, Black Jack Chewing Gum, Gum Balls, Bazooka Bumble Gum, Lucy's Predictamints, Smith Brothers Cough Drops, Mallo Cup Candy, Teaberry Gum, Oh Henry Candy Bars, Boston Baked Beans, Black Jack Taffy, Licorice Babies, Nik-L-Nip, and
Wax Lips. Remembering an old lunch hangout called the Goody Nook.
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Baby boomer articles of the 60s generation.
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Over 75 million Americans comprise the baby boomer generation, and many have reached an age where health care is starting to become a major concern. The oldest baby boomers are already in their sixties and the health care industry is beginning to feel the effect of their age.
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There is hardly a person living that cannot connect a familiar song from the past to an event in our lives or a familiar memory from years long ago that seems like it was just yesterday. For those of us born in the first decade of the baby boom I suspect Do Wop music, the folk songs of the late 50's and early 60's, hootenannies, the Motown Sound, Rock and Roll, protest songs and patriotic sounds of the Vietnam era constitute a source of many pleasant memories from our youthful and informative years. Musically, I'm generally stuck in those years. That's not to say I don't enjoy many of the wonderful songs and artists of today, but the acoustic rhythms, key tonality, harmonics and other musical qualities of the sounds of that day seem to appeal to my ear and I find I generally enjoy current music that has those same tonal qualities.
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There are 38 million baby boomer women turning ages 42-60. The sheer number of us is changing the image of midlife women like no generation before.
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From the early 1950s until the mid 1960s, American musicians were still developing, and dominating the new music that they had created.
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When someone says "The Beatles", what images come to mind? I see a black and white picture of four guys onstage, sporting mop-top haircuts and grey collarless suits.
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Some 265,000 women served in the military in the Vietnam era; about 11,000 served in Vietnam. Eight women died there. Close to 90 percent of the women who served in-country were nurses.
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Hang on Sloopy became a number one hit in the U.S. this date in 1965. I was a senior in high school when it became a hit and remember the buzz the lyrics caused. My buddies and I thought the lyrics were suggestive so we kind of added our own meaning to the song.
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The decade of the 1960’s presented social and political changes that had never been seen before. In addition to this, 60s music changed the direction of popular music and Americana as a whole.
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Searching for a new job when you're 50 or older presents a whole new set of challenges. As if interviews weren't intimidating enough, now you're trying to dispel all sorts of stereotypes about older job seekers to an interviewer who's 15 years your junior.
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The other night, I was watching The History Channel, and their take on Elvis' effect on American culture, and the birth of Rock & Roll. At one point, there was a discussion about how each group of young people, since the birth of Rock & Roll, tends to think that the music that was created . . .
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People should know age has never meant anything to baby boomers.
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Over the years there has been a mystic and something almost mysterious surrounding this very popular hit, perhaps in part, to it's unusual origins in Brazil. Most 60's music listeners know that "The Girl From Ipanema" was performed by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto and perhaps was recorded somewhere in South America, but beyond that, know very little.
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980) was an iconic 20th century composer and singer of popular music with Paul McCartney as Lennon McCartney throughout the 1960s, and was the founding member of The Beatles.
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Power, speed and performance - those are the three major traits of a muscle car.
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Why is popular music so bad today? I mean, I'm not that old, but jeez, the music of today, with only a few rare exceptions, kinda stinks. Some would say that when New Year's Eve 1979 ended, we were ushered into an era of lame music that we still haven't escaped from today.
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The baggy yellow shirt had long sleeves, four extra-large pockets trimmed in black thread, and snaps up the front. It was faded from years of wear, but still in decent shape. I found it in 1963 when I was home from college on Christmas break, rummaging through bags of clothes Mom intended to give away.
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The 60s Fads and fashions consisted of a jukebox in the booths at restaurants, wearing of paisley shirts for men and even phone booths were popular. Eating establishments such as the Burger Chef and Big Boy were in. The 60s hairstyles can now be seen today.
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Memories from the 60s Official Site visitors. Visitors submitted memoris of the sixties.
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The 1960s decade produced some of the best music of all time. Even today the 60s music is listened to not only by the 60s generation but by our children and grandchildren. Oldies stations playing the 60s are popping up everywhere. The music is popular today as it was when we were kids. The music of the 60s generation had rock, instrumentals, love songs, surfing music, songs of protest, hillarious and crazy songs. The 60s generation of music set the stage for music to come.
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A complete list of the Grammy Award Winners of the 1960s. The complete 60s decade is shown.
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Our Music, Our Times, Remember When? 45 records and LPs were king as well as audio cassette tapes and 8 track tapes. Remember listening to your favorite songs on the jukebox at your favorite hangout.
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Second to the fifties, the sixties had some of the craziest or best novelty songs of all time. Many of these novlety songs of the 60s hit the top of the charts. Can you imagine that? Take a nostalgia trip and try to recall these 25 gems of the 60s.. They sure don't make music like these anymore. Maybe that's a good thing?
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The Number 1 Hits of 1960s included hits by Elvis Presley, Brian Hyland, Chubby Checker, Marty Robbins, Ray Charles, Everly Brothrs, The Drifters and so many more.
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The Number 1 Hits of 1961 included hits by Dion, Elvis Presley, Bobby Vee, The Tokens, Jimmy Dean, Chubby Chekcer, The Marcels, Ray Charles and many others.
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The Number One Hits of 1963 included such great artists as The Chiffons, Paul & Paula, The Singing Nun, The Angels, Kyu Sakamota, Little Peggy March, The 4 Seasons, Jan & Dean, Steve Lawrence and Ruby & The Romantics just to name a few.
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The Number One Hits of 1964 was dominated by The Beatles as well as the rest of the Billboard Charts but other groups and individuals made it to the top. The top position was held by The Supremes, Bobby Vinton, The Animals, The Dixie Cups, The Beach Boys, Manfred Mann, Mary Wells, Peter & Gordon and the Shangri-las.
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The number one hits of 1965 still had a strong presence by The Beatles but many different artists peaked to the number one position. The following artists made it to number one: The Rolling Stones, Sonny & Cher, The Byrds, Herman's Hermits, Petula Clark, The Righteous Brothers and many more.
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The Number One Hits of 1966 numbered 27 and The Beatles topped the chart twice. Other artists that claimed the number one spot were: The Monkees, Ssgt Barry Sadler, The Righteous Brothers, The New Vaudeville Band, The Mamas and The Papas, The Supremes, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Association, The Four Tops, Percy Sledge and many more.
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The Number One Hits of 1967 numbered but 18 with 3 being by The Beatles. The other artists topping out at number one were: LuLu, The Monkees, The Association, Bobby Gentry, Nancy & Frank Sinatra, The Young Rascals, The Box Tops, The Doors, Aretha Franklin, The Turtles, The Buckinghams, The Rolling Stones, The Strawberry Alarm Cllock and the Supremes.
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The Number One Hits of 1968 still showed life by The Beatles but many other great artists made their presence known. Other top artists were: Marvin Gaye, Bobby Goldsboro, Paul Mauriat Orchestra, The Rascals, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkle, Diana Ross/Supremes, The Doors, Archie Bell and the Dwells, Jeannie C. Riley and others.
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The Number One Hits of 1969 ended with a variety of music. Again The Beatles hit it twice at the number one spot. Others enjoying their company were: The 5th Dimension, Zaeger & Evans, The Archies, The Rolling Stones, Sly & The Family Stone, Tommy Roe, The Temptations, Tommy James/Shondells, Steam, Henry Mancini Orchestra, Peter Paul and Mary, and Elvis Presley
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The Top Ten Songs of the 1960s decade according to Billboard.
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The 1950s and 1960s provided us with some of the greatest music ever recorded and also the best recording artists the world has ever seen. My research has yielded the list of the top 100 recording artists of the 50s and 60s era.
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The 60s Official Site picks the 100 songs of the 1960s. the vibration of a nation was dipicted in 60s music.
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The 60s Rock 'n Roll Headline News of 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966,1967, 1968 and 1969.
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A few years ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons about a thousand marbles that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it:
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The 1960s era had some of its own slang where some of these began in the 1960s era while others were just passed down. Some of these words and phrases are still used by our kids and grandchildren. Do You remember some of these 60s slang?
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Elvis Presley Top Song Playlist
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Elvis Presley was the top recording artist of all time. He had 107 songs make it to the Top 40 in Billboard magazine. I have selected what I believe is the best of the best.
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Throughout Elvis career, he was always known for his kindness and generosity. Here are some examples of his extraordinary human kindness and other stories of Elvis' life.
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The 60s was a great decade for autombiles not only because I grew up during that era but because they were cool and practical. Automobiles of the 60s were made for cruisin'. You could pile in all your buddies and collect 50 cents from each of them and because gas at that time was around 30 cents a gallon, you could cruise half the night.
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Where do Baby Boomers (those born between 1946-1964) live. Listed are the top baby boomer cities.
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A musical movement of the mid 60s, the British Invasion was composed of British rock-and-roll and beat groups whose popularity spread rapidly to the rest of the English-speaking world, especially the United States which, from the beginnings of rock-and-roll music in the early 1950s, had nearly a monopoly on the genre.
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During the 60s British Invasion these artists from Great Britain reached the #1 position on Billboard's Hot 100 forty-one times with the Beatles hitting the top position with 17 songs.
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Chickenman, WCFL's "winged warrior" crimefighter has been identified. This is an update about Benton Harbor, alias Chickenman, a product of Dick Orkin of WCFL.
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Planning a class reunion is easy right? Wrong. Class reunions must be fun for everybody and not planning properly can make it a disaster and result in very few classmates returning for subsequent reunions. So many reunions are a bust because of poor planning.
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The 60s brought us dance crazes beyond compare. Dance crazes such as The Twist, Madison, Mashed Potatoes, The Stroll,
Hully Gully, Wahtusi, the Monkey and others.
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The text and audio of Dr. Martin Luther King Speech delivered August 28, 1963.
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There was a kind of magic about the drive-in theatre .I still can smell the delicious aroma of the popcorn and hotdogs coming from the snack bar.Those 60s drive-in theatre memories, how can you forget?
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The 60s Official Site will bring you what was the best and not so best of that high school year. The happenings, the movies, the TV shows and of course the music from your high school years. What do you remember most about that particular year or decade?
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1960 started a new decade which was to be one of the best decades in history. The High School Class of 1960 welcomes a new decade.
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The High School Class of 1961 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1961.
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The High School Class of 1962 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1962.
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The High School Class of 1963 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1963.
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The High School Class of 1964 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1964.
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The High School Class of 1965 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1965.
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The High School Class of 1966 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1966.
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The High School Class of 1967 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1967.
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The High School Class of 1968 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1968.
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The High School Class of 1969 Time Capsule consisting of the happenings, TV, Movies, headlines and music of 1969.
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Do you remember these great TV 60s Commercial Jingles?
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Growing up in the 50s and 60s was a great experience and left me with memories galore. I listened to music most of the day if I wasn't outside doing something else. I still recall these silly lyric songs, parodies and novelty hits back in the 50s and 60s.
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I remember when in the 1960s we hung our laundry on a clothes line, car hops, like those at the A&W Root beer stands, delivered our food to our cars, and milkmen delivered milk to our front door. Also skating rinks were an "in" thing in the 60s as in Circleville, Ohio.
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Black and white TV. Do you remember when? A tribute to black and white TV.
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Mother's cooking is one of the most fondest memories of my life growing up in the 50s and 60s. That is why I assembled her scraps of papers and handwritten recipes from the 50s and 60s and came up with a cookbook in her memory.
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The major movies of the 1960s decade.
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Quotes from famous and not so famous people concerning the 60s. The 1960s decade of change and the words that described a generation.
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Remembering Baby Boomer's Valentine's Day from the 50s and 60s brings a smile and pleasant memories.
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History of Rhythm and Blues. Webmasters pick of the top Rhythm and Blues, (R&B) music of the 60s decade including the Motown label.
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This spotlight group started in Boise Idaho as an instrumental rock band led by organist Paul Revere Dick. In his early twenties Revere owned several restaurants in the Caldwell, Idaho area and met singer Mark Lindsey while picking up hamburgers where Lindsey worked.
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Previous spotlighted recording artists of the 1960s such as Diana Ross & the Supremes, the Righteous Brothers, The Animals, Jay and the Americans, James Brown , The Four Seasons, The Dave Clark Five, The Rascals and Dusty Springfield.
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The Angels became prominent after their number one hit "My Boyfriend's Back" in 1963 but they were formed earlier in 1961. They hit the top 40 with "Till" in 1962 peaking out at number 14.
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The Animals were a rock 'n roll band from England during the 1960s that was part of the British Invasion. Known for their blues sound and deep-voiced lead singer, Eric Burdon, they were best known by the song "House of the Rising Sun" which became their signature song.
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Celebration of the 60s music would not be complete without recognizing The Association. The 1960s group The Association produced seven top 40 hits with 2 notching the top slot.
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The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. This American sold more singles and LPs then any other American band in history. They placed 36 hits in the Top 40, more than any other American band and had a total of 56 songs make the Hot 100 hits, once again more than any other American band.
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A blue-eyed soul rock band is how the Box Tops is described. The Box Tops began as The Devilles, who had started playing in Memphis in 1963.
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The Crystals' first hit was November 1961's "There's No Other (Like My Baby)". Originally the B-side to "Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby" (featuring Wright on lead), the pop ballad (co-written by Spector and Leroy Bates, with Barbara Alston on vocals) reached number 20 in the Billboard chart, registering as an auspicious debut for Spector's Phillies label.
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James Brown, the Godfather of soul, and a great performer of the 1960s era.
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Though well-received by both peers and critics, and attaining a few moderate pop and several major R&B hits, Burke never could quite break through into the mainstream as did Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, who covered Burke's "Down in the Valley" for 1965's Otis Blue. His best known song is "Cry to Me", used in the dance and seduction scene in the film, Dirty Dancing.
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Inspired musically by Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Freddy Cannon formed his own group, Freddy Karmon & the Hurricanes, which became increasingly popular in the Boston area, and began to develop a trademark strained singing style. He also became a regular on a local TV dance show, Boston Ballroom, and, in 1958, signed up to a management contract with Boston disc jockey Jack McDermott.
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If you like pure music talent and a voice laden for string arrangements, like I do, then Vikki Carr is the first to come to your mind. I have chosen Vikki Carr as this month's spotlight artist not only for her voice and her beauty but her music was so much a comfort to me while in Vietnam.
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Johnny Cash is another great recording artist that needs no real introduction. He is not only an American icon but was loved world wide especially in Great Britain. His life was also a story book soap opera which made the screen in the movie "I Walked the Line."
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Sam Cooke had 29 Top 40 hits in the U.S. between 1957 and 1965. Major hits like "You Send Me", "A Change Is Gonna Come," "Chain Gang", "Wonderful World" and "Bring It on Home to Me" are some of his most popular songs. Cooke was also among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of his musical career.
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The Dave Clark Five was one of the original British Invasion Groups. The 60s Official Website would not be complete without recognizing their accomplishment during the 1960s.
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Petula Clark's career started way before many of us baby boomers were born but a star she was and a star she will always be. Petula is an actress, a composer and of course a fabulous singer. She was born November 15, 1932 in Surrey, England.
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In honor of Neil Diamond being selected to the Rock ' N Roll Hall of Fame for the 2011 induction, I have selected this great song writer and singer as the Spotlight Artist of the month.
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Fats Domino left an uncontested mark on rock 'n roll. Although most of his work was during the 50s, his music is still being played and performed over 50 years ago. As a 50s rock 'n roller and blues singer he sold over 65 million records to date and outsold every 50s rock 'n roll peformer with exception to Elvis.
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From 1964 until 1969, Ronnie Dove was one of the top romantic balladeers in an era that boasted the Beatles and a peculiar mix of renewed rock an d roll with the acid sound of psychedelic music. In 1965 alone, Dove scored five hits, with all but one cracking the Top 20 or higher.
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The Drifters , one of the most popular groups of the 50s and 60s is the recording artist spotlight of the month. With such hits as "There Goes My Baby," "Up On The Roof," "Under The Boardwalk," and so many more.
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There is no real introduction needed for Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan was and still is an American music icon. The sixties would not have been the same without Bob Dylan.
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Don Everly was born in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and Phil two years later in Chicago, Illinois. The Everly Brothers Cadence single, "Bye Bye Love", had been rejected by 30 other acts including Elvis Presley but the Everlys saw potential in the song. Their recording of "Bye Bye Love" reached #2 on the pop charts behind Presley's "Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear", hitting #1 on the Country and #5 on the R&B charts.
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In my opinion The Fifth Dimension was one of the most versatile groups of the 60s and 70s. They were originally known as the Hi-Fi's. They changed their name to The Versatiles and then The Fifth Dimension in late 1966.
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The 1960s brought to us one the most versatile recording groups, Franki Valli and the Four Seasons. No American group between the 60s years of 1962-1966 sold more records than The Four Seasons and the Beach Boys.
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With so many great groups of the Motown era, my favorite has always been The Four Tops. After hearing "Baby I Need Your Loving," in 1964, I immediately bought the 45 and actually wore it out.
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Marvin Gaye, one of the top recording artist of the 1960s and into the 80s. Marvin Gaye was one of the best during Motown era.
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One of the top "girl group" era recording artist of the 60s was Leslie Gore most remembered for her hit "It's My Party."
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The Grass Roots definitely left its mark on the 60s rock scene. It was one of my favorite pure rock 'n roll band although founded under the folk rock movement.
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The Happenings became very successful in remaking old classics such as "See You in September" first recorded by The Tempos.
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Herman Hermits from Manchester England has the spotlight on them this month. This pop band was formed in 1963 in Manchester, England.
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The band initially formed in 1959 as Tom and the Tornadoes, with the then only 12-year-old Tommy James as lead singer. In 1963, he re-named the band The Shondells after one of James' idols, guitarist Troy Shondell.
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Jan and Dean's Greatest Hits LP was the first album I bought titled "Greatest Hits." Jan and Dean's music was to me a collection of summer time fun music and they were very successful. There success story is quite different than many other rock groups of that era. Jan and Dean's music career took a backseat to their educational pursuits which was quite uncommon during the 60s era. It was filled with many successes and of course tragedy.
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!960s recording artists of the month Jay and the Americans. Jay and Americans had four top ten hits during the 1960s.
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Billy J. Kramer grew up as the youngest of seven siblings and attended the St George of England Secondary School.The Dakotas would not join Kramer without a recording contract of their own. Once in place, the deal was set and both acts signed to Parlophone under George Martin.
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Tom Jones has performed in all venues of music from R&B, Rock, Country & Western, Show Tunes, to soul and gospel. His voice had such a dynamic range and when his music was first heard many listeners thought he was a black singer. Since 1965 he has sold over 100 million records.
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This month's spotlight is on Little Anthony & The Imperials with noted hits such as "Tears on My Pillow," "I'm on the Outside Looking In," "Goin' Out of My Head," ' Hurt So Bad" and so many more. The 1960s would not be complete without them.
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The 60s Official Site's Recording Artists of the Month are The Lovin Spoonful. The Lovin' Spoonful had its roots in a bohemian folk group called The Mugwumps, who played coffee houses and small clubs, some members of which split to form the Lovin' Spoonful and the Mamas and the Papas.
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Motown's first successful female vocal group, the Marvelettes are most notable for recording the company's first #1 Pop hit, "Please Mr. Postman", and for setting the precedent for later Motown girl groups such as Martha and the Vandellas and the Supremes.
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One of the most popular groups in the mid 60s in the midwest especially in Ohio were the McCoys. They were formed in Union City, Indiana
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The music of Mitch Ryder was pure rock 'n roll music of the sixites. I had the pleasure of watching him perform live in the mid 60s. This occasion as were many others was nothing less than a fond memory. Mitch Ryder was excellent showman and had a great voice for the rock music he sang.
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Roy Orbison appeared on American Bandstand, quite different from the Elvis-inspired gyrator he once was with the Teen Kings, and toured the U.S. for three months non-stop with Patsy Cline. Presley heard "Only the Lonely" and bought a box of singles to pass out to his friends.
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Puckett began playing the guitar while in his teens and graduated from Twin Falls High School and then attended college in San Diego, California. He dropped and joined a hard rock group called the Outcasts.
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Gene Pitney was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He grew up in Rockville, now a part of the town of Vernon. His early musical influences were Clyde McPhatter and Doo Wop groups like The Crows. He attended Rockville High School from which he earned the name "The Rockville Rocket," and where he formed his first band called "Gene & the Genials."
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The featured artist of the month is the Rascals or Young Rascals as they were known as in the early years of their career. They had numerous top hits inluding "Good Lovin'," "A Beautiful Morning", Groovin'" and People Got to Be Free."
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Artist of the month spotlight is on the Righteous Brothers. One of the hottest groups in the 1960s era. Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield's harmony resulted in the phrase "blue eye soul."
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The Ronettes first appeared in 1961 as dancers at Joey Dee's Peppermint Lounge on 45th Street in New York City. Brian Wilson claims that "Be My Baby" was his favorite song.
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Spotlight is on Rock 'N Roll's greatest girl group, Diana Ross & the Supremes.
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Bobby Rydell (born Robert Louis Ridarelli, was on born 26 April 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
During 1950, Rydell competed on the amateur talent television series, Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club; his first-place win gained him a regular role with the series. He worked with the Whiteman series for three years, changing his name to Bobby Rydell.
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Neil Sedaka was a 60s legend not only in recording but also writing his own songs.
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Cherilyn Sarkisian (Cher) first met Salvatore Bono (Sonny) in a Los Angeles coffee shop in November 1962, when she was sixteen. The older Bono (11 years her senior) was working for record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood.
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The Shirelles are one of my favorite girl groups of all time. They were the first major female vocal group of the rock and roll era, defining the so-called girl group sound with their soft, sweet harmonies and yearning innocence. Their greatest hit album was the first LP I purchased by an all girl group.
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Although not noted for many recordings during their career, Spanky and Our Gang was what I called a great summer time folk song group.
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I fell in love with Dusty Springfield in my sophmore year of high school. Her voice and her music just captivated me. She went on to become known as the best blue-eyed female soul singer. Looking back at her life I find it interesting and eventful and so this month Dusty Springfield is in the spotlight.
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Johnny Tillotson enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s when he scored a series of Top Ten hits including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin' In total, he placed 30 singles and albums in the Billboard charts
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The 1960s brought many outstanding groups during the 60s decade. The Turtles represented the best of the best.
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Bobby Vee's career began amid tragedy. On "The Day the Music Died" (February 3, 1959), the three headline acts in the line-up of the traveling 'Winter Dance Party'---Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper---were killed,
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This month the spotlight is on an English rock band, The Yardbirds. The group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees from the 1960s era.
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Twenty years after deactivation of Route 66, we now long for that time to return. People from all walks of life are taking the tour of old Route 66 longing for the return of the bygone days.
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The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967, when an unprecedented gathering of as many as 100,000 young people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, creating a phenomenon of cultural, political rebellion and great music from that summer.
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1960s television as you all remember was so much different than today. . Comedy TV Shows of the 60s, Drama and Sci-Fi TV of the 60s, Westerns of 60s TV, and Variety Shows of 60s TV. Think back to sixties televison.
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77 Sunset Strip premiered on ABC October 10, 1958 and ended its run February 26, 1964 with 206 episodes being produced.
The investigators of Stuart Bailey, p[layed by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Jeff Spencer played by Roger Smith, operated out of very elaborate offices at 77 Sunset Strip, Hollywood California. Stuart Bailey was a very cultered OSS officer who was an expert in foreign languages. Jeff Spencer was a former government uncover agent with a degree in law. Bailey and Spencer were both Judo experts. Their cases took them to glamourous places all ove the world.
At Dino's, a posh restaurant, worked a parking attendant named Kookie,played by Edd Byrnes, who was a private detective wannabe. In the cast also was Suzanne, the French switchboard operator.
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A great show for the kids on 60s television was the Alvin Show featuring Alvin and the Chipmunk. One of the great 60s cartoon shows.
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American Bandstand began as a local program on WFIL-TV (now WPVI), Channel 6 in Philadelphia on October 7, 1952. Then it was hosted by Bob Horn and was called Bob Horn's Bandstand.On July 9 of 1956 the show got a new host, a clean-cut 26 year old named Dick Clark. When ABC picked the show up, it was renamed American Bandstand, airing it's first national show on August 5, 1957. The show was moved to Los Angeles in 1964. From 1963 to 1987 Bandstand was on only once a week, on Saturday
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Andy's Gang was a children's television program that ran on NBC from August 20, 1955, to December 31, 1960. It was hosted by actor Andy Devine and was the successor to the radio and television programs Smilin' Ed McConnell and his Buster Brown Gang, later shortened to Smilin' Ed McConnell and his Gang.
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Batman is a 1960s American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name, which stars Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network for two and a half seasons from January 12, 1966 to March 14, 1968.
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The series stars Vince Edwards as medical doctor Ben Casey, a young, intense but idealistic surgeon at County General Hospital. His mentor was Doctor David Zorba, played by Sam Jaffe.
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Bewitched revolves around Darrin Stevens, first played by Dick York and later by Dick Sargent, an advertising executive and his beautiful wife, Samantha, played by beautiful Elizabeth Montgomery, who happens to be a witch. They live at 1164 Morning Glory Circle in Westport Connecticut. Darrin works for the Manhattan firm of McMann and Tate. Most Bewitched episodes deals with him hiding the fact his wife is a witch and of course her powers she possesses.
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Bonanza was the first color western and one of the longest running TV shows. It first aired in 1959 on NBC and there were 430 sixty minute episodes produced. The series followed the adventures of the Cartwright clan who owned a 1000 square mile timber range known as The Ponderosa just outside Virginia City.
Head of the Cartwright family was Ben Cartwright played by Lorne Greene, who was a widower. Michael Landon played the youngest son Little Joe with Dan Blocker the middle son Eric "Hoss" Cartwright and Pernell Roberts as the oldest son Adam Cartwright. All three sons had different mothers and all being deceased.
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The Bronco series aired from September 23, 1958 until August 20, 1962.
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Burke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Candid Camera was a hidden camera television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947. After a series of theatrical film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone, Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948.
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Car 54, Where Are You? is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from September 17, 1961 to September 8,1963, airing 60 episodes. Most of its filming was on location in the The Bronx and at Biograph Studios.
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Cheyenne Bodie played by Clint walker was a large man, 6'6" tall) a former army scout, who wandered the west and tried to avoid trouble at all cost but with little success. In the first season he had a sidekick named Smitty played by L.Q. Jones but was dropped in the second season.
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Combat! is an American television program that aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. Combat! presented an unvarnished view of men in armed conflict. This was not a series that glorified war, but a tribute to the civilian soldier, the average G.I. who fought (and died) on the front lines of Europe.
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Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. The 558 television episodes were introduced by a host. The longest-running was "The Old Ranger" from 1952 to 1965, played by Stanley Andrews .
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Deputy Dawg was a below average lawman but his misadventures made him a classic on 1960s television and one of the best 1960s cartoons.
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Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers.
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Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which ran from September 27, 1961 until April 5, 1966 encompassing a total of 190 episodes. The show, which premiered at the same time as an ABC medical drama, Ben Casey, quickly achieved success and helped spark a number of new shows dealing with the medical field.
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F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show switched to color for its second season.
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Get Smart! is an American television comedy series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as the Chief of CONTROL, a secret American government counter-espionage agency.
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Gilligan's Island is an American television situation comedy created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The series featured Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jr., Jim Backus, and Tina Louise, and aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964, to September 4, 1967.
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The Gomer Pyle series was a spinoff from The Andy Griffith Show. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., premiered on CBS on September 25, 1964 and exited September 19, 1969 after completing 150 episodes.
Gomer Pyle started on The Andy Griffith Show during the third season as the dimwitted mechanic. His ignorance but honesty really was annoyance to Andy and Deputy Barney Fife. After the first season, Jim Nabors (Gomer) was offered a series of his own. The spinoff began as an episode on The Andy Griffith Show where Gomer enlists into the Marines.
Private Pyle is stationed at Camp Henderson, California assigned to tough as nails Sergeant Carter's platoon. Sergeant Carter played by Frank Sutton can handle anything except Private Pyle's back woods naivete and slow learning ability. This combination made this show hit.
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CBS produced 170 episodes of Green Acres and it appeared on television from September 1965 till September 1971. Green acres was a spinoff of Petticoat Junction.
Attorney Oliver Wendall played by Eddie Albert, an attorney, wanting to be a farmer all his life buys The Haney 160 acre farm sight unseen near Hooterville. His wife Lisa, starrin Eva Gabor, objects leaving New York's luxury to live in the country. She eventually gives in and moves to the broken down shack which is unfurnished and missing the luxuries they are so accustomed. The show is built around them adjusting not only to the new style of living but to the towns people with their backwards living.
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Gunsmoke, the televsion western series, originally started on radio in 1952 with William Conrad the voice of Matt Dillon. When it was decided to move to television John Wayne was asked to be Marshall Matt Dillon but he turned it down because he didn't want the rigors of doing a weekly television show. John Wayne recommended James Arness, a relatively new actor. John Wayne introduced the first episode when it aired on CBS in 1955. There was a total of 233 thirty minute episodes and 402 sixty minute episodes produced. It is still the longest running western ever produced.
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Richard Boone stars as the black clad good guy Paladin, a modern day detective working in the old west. In this 60s television western he lived in San Francisco and his services did not come cheap. His standard fee was $1000. He was a West Point graduate and could recite Shakespeare as well as use his colt single action revolver. If you remember he had a calling card he handed out during each episode.
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Hawaiian Eye is an American television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the ABC television network
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Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series that aired from 1955-1959. The series was syndicated by Ziv TV. It starred Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in a large, unidentified Western state.
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Hogan's Heroes was an American classic TV show that produced 168 episodes and aired on CBS from September 17, 1965 to March 28, 1971. The show was set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during the Second World War. Bob Crane had the starring role as Colonel Robert E. Hogan,
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Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965-1966 television season. The series stars Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West.
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Hootenanny was a musical variety television show broadcast in the United States on ABC from April 1963 to September 1964. Although both popular and influential, the program is primarily remembered today for the controversy created when the producers blacklisted certain folk music acts, which then led to a boycott by others.
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'Hullabaloo' was a lot like 'Shindig', and lasted only a year and a half as well, debuting in January of 1965, and continuing until the Fall of 1966.
First broadcast as a half hour series, then as an hour show in the spring, then switching back again to a half hour in the fall of 1965, 'Hullabaloo' featured the Hullabaloo Dancers, The Peter Matz Orchestra ('The Carol Burnett Show' band), and (on the first few hour shows) Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, introducing new British acts in black and white segments (the rest of the show was in color). Instead of just one host, different guest-hosts were recruited each week for this NBC show.
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Dream of Jeannie appeared on NBC for five years beginning September 1965 and ending after 139 episodes on September 1, 1970.
The beautiful Jeannie played by Barbara Eden, was born in Bagdad 64 BC. When she reached the age of marriage her hand was sought by the most powerful and feared genie of all time, the Blue Djin. When she denied him her hand, he turned her into a genie and placed her in a bottle and sentenced her to a deserted island to be all alone for the rest of her life. Centuries pass and she is not affected by time. In 1965 astronaut Captain Tony Nelson played by Larry Hagman, crash lands on the deserted island and while looking for something to send a SOS signal he finds the bottle. When he opens it pink smoke appears and a beautiful harem girl, appears.
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I've Got a Secret is a weekly panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. Created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill, it was a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show What's My Line?.
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Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr. as Andy Sherman.
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Lassie TV show was a baby boomer classic that started from a popular movie of the 1940s. The show is still shown in syndication today.
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC.
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Leave it to Beaver aired on CBS and ABC for 234 episodes from October 1957 to September 1963. The family of the Cleavers lived in Mayfield at 211 Pine Street. Ward, Hugh Beaumont, the father was an accountant and his wife June Cleaver starring Barbara Billingsley was the typical housewife during that period. The shows follows the story of the two sons Beaver starring Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow as Wally. The Cleavers was the typical middle class family found always in these type of programs. Together with the growing up and the problems they presented during the episodes with their friends included brought delightment and a moral to the story.
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Lost in Space was a science fiction televsion series produced by Irwin Allen for broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E., whose letters stand for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
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Mannix began its appearance on televison September 7, 1967 and remained at CBS until August 24, 1975 with 154 episodes being filmed.
During the first season Joe Mannix played by Mike Connors, worked as a detective for Intertect, a computerized private detective agency. Stories follow the format of Mannix being a loner who constantly goes against the rules and regulations of the detective organization.
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Maverick was the story of Brett Maverick (James Garner) a card shark during the old west. The series started out as a straight forward story teller and then comedy was added later.
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McHale's Navy is an American television sitcom series which ran for 138 half-hour episodes from October 11, 1962 to August 31, 1966 on the ABC network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated in a one-hour drama called Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962.
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Mission Impossible invaded CBS on September 17, 1966 and ended its run in September 1973 after 171 episodes.
The cases of Impossible Mission Force, which was a top secret government organization that was trained to handle dangerous and highly sensitive international assignments, was depicted week after week on these 60 minute episode. Peter Graves, Greg Morris,
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My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes (75 in black and white 1963–1965, 32 color 1965–1966). The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara.
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Settling into their first home, newlyweds Wilbur Post,
an architect, and his wife Carol, discover a horse in
the barn. Meeting Roger Addison, a neighbor, they discover
that the horse is theirs, left to them by the previous
owner. Unable to part with the animal, Wilber persuades
Carol to let him keep it. Shortly after, while brushing
the horse (named Mr. Ed), Wilbur discovers that he
possesses the ability to talk, and because Wilbur is the
only person he likes well enough to talk to, he will
speak only to him. Stories depict the misadventures
that befall Wilbur as he struggles to conceal
the fact that he owns a talking horse.
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My Three Sons storylines centred on the family's adventures in suburbia, and was perhaps the hybrid of what was to become the era of the Dom-Com (Domestic Sitcom). Steve Douglas also spent a good deal of time fending off attractive women who wanted to marry him and take over that loveable ready made family.
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Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary" format.
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One Step Beyond is an American television series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from 1959 to 1961.
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One of the best sci-fi shows on 60s TV was the original "Outer Limits."
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Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, produced over 271 episodes for CBS. It started its run September 21, 1957 and ended September 4, 1966.
For nine seasons the famous defense attorney solved murder cases in the courtroom. Assisting him in solving those complexed puzzles was his personal investigator, Paul Drake and his secretary Della Street. Perry seemed to put together the facts at the very last minute to solve those puzzling cases. His adversary was District Attorney Hamilton Burger, whom he would outshine each and every week. The outcome each episode was certainly predictable but nonetheless entertaining. Mason never lost a case which made DA Burger that more determined to beat Perry one time
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Petticoat Junction was a spinoff from The Beverly Hillbillies. The story takes place in a small town of Hooterville. Kate Bradley was the widowed owner of the only bed and breakfast type of establishment in the entire town. She had three beautiful daughters, Billy Jo, Betty Jo, Bobby Jo, who helped her run the rural Shady Rest Hotel.
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Although Popeye was first created in the 1930s, his popularity reached its peak in the 1960s. This 1930s cartoon character was a hit on 1960s television.
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Quick Draw McGraw of 1960s television was a classic 1960s cartoon following on the sucess of Huckleberry Hound.
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Rawhide was the continuing story of a group of Texas headed by trail boss, Gil Favor, (Eric Fleming) moving a herd of 3000 cattle to market up north. Also starring was Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates. The show first aired on January 9, 1959 and its last episode was January 4, 1966.
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Rocky and Bullwinkle was a classic of 1960s television. This 1960s cartoon show was well written like a script for radio but with pictures.
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A lovable chicken at heart dog in Scooby Doo. A real classic cartoon show of 1960s television.
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Shindig, hosted by LA disc jockey Jimmy O'Neill, was broadcast live on ABC September 16, 1964, with house band the Shin-diggers (later the Shindogs) and the Shindigger dancers (the reason anyone over twenty-five might be watching the show). Most of the 'Shindig' shows were broadcast in glorious black and white.
'Shindig' started out life as a half-hour variety show, but by January of 1965 it was expanded to a full hour. If you were watching back then you would have seen Darlene Love, Jean King and The Blossoms, Bobby Sherman, Fats Domino, (even Orson Welles), The Righteous Brothers and others performing while the Shindigger dancers did their groovy thing. In the Fall of 1965, the show was split into two half-hour shows, broadcasting on Thursday and Saturday nights. On the Fall 1965 premiere show, broadcast from London (this would continue periodically), guests included The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds and The Everly Brothers. The Who and every other British invasion band played on 'Shindig', and the show spawned a plethora of imitators, including a hoarde of local music shows
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Star Trek started its journey on television with NBC on September 8, 1966 and completed its final journey on April 4, 1969 after 78 episodes.
The series Star Trek was set in the 23rd Century on Starship Enterprise commanded by Captain James Kirk played by William Shatner. Its mission was to explore unknown and new planets and to deliver supplies from Earth to other colonies in space. Continuing conflicts with Klingons and Romulans provided recurring conflicts as well as other discovered life fo
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The Sugarfoot, Tom Brewster grew up in the East and came west studying law by correspondence course hoping to become a lawyer. He being naive and being a sarsparilla drinker caused him to get into many predicaments. Will Hutchins was casted as Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster and Jack Elam was "Toothy" Thompson in this classic yet short lived 60s televison western
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Surfside 6 is an ABC television series (1960–1962) about a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat, featuring Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield, II, Van Williams as Kenny Madison (a character recycled from Bourbon Street Beat, a similar series that had appeared in the same time slot the season before), and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne.
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The Addams Family series was the story of an eccentric family that lived on North Cemetery Ridge. The series aired on ABC as a 30 minute comedy from September 1964 to September 1966. In all there were 64 episodes produced. Morticia was the beautiful wife of the house. Her husband Gomez had very strange looking eyes and was a destructive person in nature as was Uncle Fester. Lurch was a 7 foot human looking monster who really only said two words "You rang?" or just mumbled. The children consisted of Pugsley and his sister Wednesday who both at ghoulish attributes as well. Grandma was a witch. They lived in an old castle looking house filled with odd objects including a dismembered hand named "Thing" which kept popping out of a black box.
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In September of 1956 a TV series named "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" was aired on ABC. The show was only on the air for two years from 1956 to 1958 and produced 76 episodes.
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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet show appeared on ABC for 15 years beginning October 1952 and ending September 1966. There were 435 episodes produced that followed the Nelsons day to day adventures as an average middle-class family. We all watched as their two young sons David Nelson and Ricky Nelson grew up before our eyes including getting married and their real life wives appearing on the show. .
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program which originally aired in 166 episodes on ABC from October 1954 until August 1959.
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The Andy Griffith Show was one of the top rated shows of all times. It appeared on CBS from October 1960 to September 1968 for a total of 249 episodes. Andy Taylor was the sheriff in the small town of Mayberry where he raised his small son Opie played by Ronnie Howard with the help of his Aunt Bea. Most of his time was spent raising his son Opie and with his deputy Barney Fife played by Don Knotts keeping the peace in an uneventful and crime free town. The town had its share of characters like Floyd the Barber who was taken in by the world around him and Gomer Pyle, the gas station attendant, at Wally's Service Station.
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The Andy Williams premiered on NBC in 1962 and exited July 17, 1971.
The velvet voice of Andy Williams one of the most popular singers during the 60s, appeared in many variety shows on television. He first did special variety shows for ABC and CBS in 1958 and 1959 and got his own show in 1962. Always big-name stars appeared on his show as well as the regular cast. The Osmond brothers were discovered by Andy Williams and first appeared on his show December 20, 1962.
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Due to the popularity of the Beatles, The Beatles Cartoon Show aired on 60s television. It is remembered as one of the best due to the actual soundtrack music of the Beatles used in the series.
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The Beverly Hillbillies was an instant success. It was the number one show for the 1962 and 1963 season. It was shown on CBS from September 1962 till September 1971. The situation comedy produced 274 thirty minute episodes.
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The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. The TV series was based loosely on the Hill Ranch located at the western edge of Calaveras County, not far from Stockton
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One of the most memorable cartoons of the 1960s era was Bugs Bunny. The Bugs Bunny Show was watched on 1960s TV more than any other cartoon show.
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Carol Burnett and her TV warriors entertained us with song, dance and comedy for over ten years. The Carol Burnett Show was one of television's most successful variety shows of all time. Jim Nabors was considered her good luck charm as he appeared on the first show. The show raked in the Emmy Awards. The CBS variety show began on September 11, 1967 and ended its successful run on March 29, 1978.
Among Carol Burnett's comic characterizations were Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins with Tim Conway, Eunice and Ed with Harvey Korman, Eunice and Ed were always at odds with Eunice's mother played by Vicki Lawrence. "As The Stomach Turns" was a continuing soap-opera saga.
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The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series that ran on CBS from 1961–1965. It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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The Donna Reed Show was an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the upper middle class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz appears as her pediatrician husband Alex, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children Mary and Jeff. The show originally aired on ABC at 10 pm from September 24, 1958 to March 19, 1966.
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The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 until June 1, 1966. There were 158 episodes plus one reunion telecast. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.
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Ed Sullivan started in 1948 and left the air in 1971. Our family would sit down to watch the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS every Sunday night. He was a newspaper columnist who's peculiar diction and weird gesture were made fun of by all even comedians that appeared on his show. There were all kind of acts world wide from opera to rock singers to the unusual. Even circus acts found their way on the Sullivan Show. Because of the variety of acts, The Ed Sullivan Show was the longest running variety show in TV history, surely never to be surpassed. He offered top acts such as Elvis Presley, The Animals, and The Beatles.
The show was originally titled "The Toast of the Town" but in the beginning of the 1955 season the name
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The Everglades is an American crime-adventure television series that aired in first-run syndication for one season from 1961–62 and in reruns. Ron Hayes starred as Constable Lincoln Vail, a law enforcement officer of the fictional Everglades County Patrol who traveled the Florida Everglades in an airboat, which was often the star of the show.
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The Flintstones were the first prime time television cartoon show of the 1960s television era.
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The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios, which starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille.
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The Fugitive as a very successful series that aired on ABC from September 1963 to August 1967 with 120 episodes being produced.
Dr. Richard Kimble played by David Janssen is accused, tried, and convicted of the murder of his wife, which he did not commit. While being transported by Lt. Phillip Gerard, played by Barry Morse,by train to be executed for the crime, the train derails and Kimble excapes. During the four years the series aired Kimble searched the entire country looking for the one-armed man he saw kill his wife. Kimble assumed different identies and worked odd jobs and was nearly caught numerous times as he continued his relentless search for the killer.
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Remember the Huckleberry Hound Show on 1960s television? Definitely a classic of 1960s cartoon shows although it began its debut in the late 1950s.
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One of my favorite science fiction TV shows of the 60s was "The Invaders," starring Roy Thinnes.
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Another great cartoon show emerges with the Jetsons. Following the lead of the Flinstones from the past to zooming to the future. The Jetsons is a classic 1960s cartoon show.
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The Lawman, Marshall Dan Troop (John Russell) of Laramie protected the town from the bad guys.
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a western television series loosely based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white series ran on ABC-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp.
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The Munsters aired on CBS from September 1964 to September 1966 with 70 episodes being produced. The creepy family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane where the house was infested with spider webs. Herman looked like the Frankenstein monster and worked at a funeral parlor. Others in the family included Lily Munster who was a female vampire, their son, Edward Wolfgang Munster, a werewolf, Lily's father Grandpa, Count Dracula, a 378 year old mad scientist, who's inventions keep backfiring and causing mayhem. The black sheep of the family is niece Marilyn, who is not only normal but beautiful and is a college student. Occasionally the family pet Spot makes an appearance. He is nothing more than a "fire breathing dinosaur.
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The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, until May 4, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke, who had recently won an Academy Award for The Miracle Worker (1962). A total of 104 episodes were produced, most written by Sidney Sheldon.
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The Rat Patrol is an American television program that aired on ABC during the 1966–1968 seasons. The show follows the exploits of four (three American and one British) Allied soldiers who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps".
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The Real McCoys starring Walter Brennan and Richard Crenna was a happy care free West Virginia Mountain family that pulls up its roots and moves to California. It first aired on ABC October 23, 1957 and later moved to CBS. A total of 224 episodes were made of this 30 minute situation comedy.
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Red Skelton started in radio during the 40s and was one of the brightest new stars to come along. Red was a visual comedian, so unlike many of his counterparts, he made an easy transition to TV. He arrived on TV in 1951 and remained at the top for 20 years. The Red Skelton Show was a classic TV event.
Most of his characters were developed on radio and worked so well and he continued to develop them on television. Some of his well known characters were; The Mean Widdle Kid, Clem Kadiddlehopper, Sheriff Deadeye, Cauliflower McPugg, San Fernando Red, the con man; the henpecked husband George Appleby,Willie Lump-Lump, the drunk, Ludwick von Humperdoo, the scientist and Bolivar Shagnasty. Freddie the Freeloader was a hobo that did not speak and was added for television. His character was pantomined and Red Skelton was the best artist of pantomine that TV has ever known.
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The 60s televsion western, The Rifleman aired 169 thirty minute episodes on ABC from 1958 to 1963.
The story evolved around a rancher Lucas McCain (Chuck Conners) and son Mark (Johnny Crawford) who he raised alone on his ranch near North Folk, New Mexico. McCain's Winchester rifle was modified where he could fire a round in 3/10 of a second. His skill with his rifle helped the sheriff maintain law and order in the town.
The_Rifleman.html
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Twilight Zone was one of the most popular sci-fi shows on TV. It appeared on CBS from October 1959 to June 1964. So many well-known actors appeared on Twilight Zone, too numerous to mention. The stories not the acting is what made it a hit.
The opening dialogue by Rod Serling set the stage for that evening's show.
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables.
The_Untouchables.html
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The Virginian, also known as The Men From Shiloh, is an American Western-themed television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name.
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Each week Wagon Train starring Ward Bond first as the Wagonmaster and later, John McIntire ,told the stories of pioneering familes moving west from the east to start a new life soon after the Civil War. Some of these stories had heart warming and happy endings while some did not. This approach made this weekly western series a hit. Due to the popularity of the show and a new storyline each week it was not too difficult for the scriptwriters to have larger than average talent appear on the show. The budget was larger than the normal one hour show that was being produced for TV. Its popularity continued even though there were several cast changes.
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Yogi Bear was one of the most popular cartoon shows of the 1060s television era. This 1960s cartoon character was and still is Hanna Berbera's most popular character.
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A snapsnot of the 1960 economy and prices.
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Sanpshot of the 1961 economy and prices.
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Sanpshot of 1962 economy and prices.
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Snapshopt of the 1963 economy and prices.
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Snapshot of 1964 economy and prices.
1964_Economy_and_Prices.html
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A snapshot of 1965 economy and prices.
1965_Economy_and_Prices.html
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A snapshot of the 1966 economy and prices.
1966_Economy_and_Prices.html
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A snapshot of 1967 economy and prices.
1967_Economy_and_Prices.html
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A snapshot of 1968 economy and prices.
1968_Economy_and_Prices.html
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A snapshot of 1969 economy and prices.
1969_Economy_and_Prices.html
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Link page for the headlines and key facts of the 1960s. Each year 1960, 1061, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969 are featured.
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1960
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1961
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1962
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1963
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1964
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1965
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1966
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1967
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The Headlines and Key Facts of 1968
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The Headline News and Key Facts of 1969
The_Headlines_of_1969.html
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The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents' bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar. As a small boy I was always fascinated at the sounds the coins made as they were dropped into the jar.
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Based on my own collection of the Billboard charts I have compiled the top ten songs from every day of the 60s era. So pick out a date and reflect on where you were and what songs were in the top ten at that time.
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During the Vietnam War, 244 men were awarded the Medal of Honor with 153 listed on the Vietnam War Memorial Wall.
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The music of soldiers, airmen, marines, and navy personnel remember the most while assigned to Vietnam during the 60s. These songs were the most listened to and played songs during the 60s decade of the Vietnam War.
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My pictures of my tour of Vietnam with the 101st Airborne at Phu Bai.
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Pictures of the Vietnam War. Baby boomers fighting an unpopular war.
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The Tet Offensive was a series of battles in the Vietnam War. It was a major offensive by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC or NLF) beginning on the night of January 30-31, 1968, TET (the lunar new year day). It involved military action in almost every major city in southern Vietnam and attacks on the US firebase at Khe Sanh. The NVA suffered a heavy military defeat but scored a priceless propaganda victory.
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Check out the myths and get the true facts about the Vietnam War.
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The U.S. involvement in Vietnam actually began during President Truman's administration. The Vietnam War Time Line depicts the major events of the Vietnam War.
Vietnam_War_Time_Line.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. January brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
January.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the1960s but beyond. February brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
February.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. March brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
March.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. April brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
April.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. May brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
May.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. June brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
June.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. July brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
July.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. August brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
August.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. September brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
September.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. October brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
October.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. November brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
November.html
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On this day in Rock'n Roll, you will find notes of interest that affected not only rock 'n roll in the 1960s but beyond. December brings you key events that shaped the era and we baby boomers.
December.html
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As far as The 60s Official Site is concerned today's radio DJs cannot match the wit, humor and fun that these jocks brought to their broadcasts To name a few these are the top DJs of the 60s; Robert W. Morgan, Johnny Holliday, Dr. Don Rose, Wolfman Jack, Cousin Brucie, Art Roberts.
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During the 1960s we had our little toys and games also. The toys aof the 1960s and the games of the 1960s are the ones I remember best.
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Where are they now and whatever happend to these stars and icons of the 60s. Sure we see them on TV as re-runs but whatever happenend to them and where are they now?
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Woodstock was to be the largest outdoor Rock concert ever. Three days of music the 60s style. In 1969, 3 days of music, camping to be held in upstate New York.
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A look back at the 60s through music, headlines, TV, movies, and personal observation also includes themed jukeboxes for your listening pleasure.
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